Hi, I'm Nir Yechiel.
I’m currently a product manager at Red Hat, working on agentic AI for enterprise teams. I’ve been on both sides of the build - engineering leadership and product - and I write about AI, product craft, and the human side of shipping software.
Outside of work, you’ll find me running, on a yoga mat, or lost in music.
Build Your Own AI-Augmented Workflow
A few weeks ago, I published a post about NirOps - my AI-augmented workflow for product management. The response was more than I expected. People reached out asking how to build something similar for their own roles.
Latest Posts
July 5, 2026
All Things Excellent Are as Difficult as They Are Rare
Spinoza ends his Ethics book - one of the most demanding works in the history of philosophy - with a single sentence: “Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia quam rara sunt.”…
July 2, 2026
A few weeks into my current role, I had a spec ready for a UI change - twelve string replacements across seven files, with a clear naming principle and an…
June 21, 2026
If you’re building on top of an LLM, there’s a natural instinct to chase the best model. Bigger parameter counts, higher benchmark scores, the latest release from OpenAI or Anthropic…
June 15, 2026
Why Your AI Agent Keeps Making the Same Mistakes
My AI agent used to guess people’s names from their email addresses. It saw an email handle and confidently produced a full name in a meeting brief - wrong person…
Latest Notes
July 5, 2026
Molly Graham’s framework for diagnosing team problems - start structural, not personal.
July 5, 2026
Prompt, context, harness, loop - each layer wraps the one before it, and the real engineering is further out than most people think.
July 4, 2026
Organizing product work around user jobs instead of feature requests.
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